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Hi, I'm fitting a smart toilet and it comes with an angled ball valve with filter for regulating the water supply. The flexi goes on the outlet part fine but I'm a bit unsure of the inlet side. It has a ribbed thread and no nut. A standard compression nut and olive will fit onto it fine, but it...

Hi all, Soon to get a replacement boiler and have been looking at the possibility of a storage combi (Veismann Vitodens 111 etc). Just finding it hard to get info on how they actually work. I understand how a combi works and how a boiler with storage works. I get that the storage combi...

Hi. I'm refurbishing an Edwardian terrace and need a little advice from you lovely people on my plumbing scenario please. I have found some info by searching but not a definitive answer. I have a kitchen (with combi boiler) and two bathrooms to plumb CW supplies from scratch. The bathrooms...

Hi, Hoping someone can help with a multikwik question please. I am replacing a toilet on a cast iron pipe 4" internal diameter. I am replacing with a closed couple toilet and I also want to move it to the left (as viewed from above) by 75-100mm. The basic question is how far back...

Hi all, I've been fishing for help in the Roofing Forum but bites are proving hard to come by. I thought I'd trickle a bit of loose feed into the margins of the ever popular Building Forum to see if anyone here may have some advice . I'm not expecting a feeding frenzy but a couple of bobs on...

EDITED to put pics in context, add plans and tidy up terminology. Hi All, I am refurbishing an Edwardian terrace and have uncovered a roof issue that I would like some advice on please. The roof in question is not the main roof but the smaller pitched roof over the rear original two...

Hi all, I've inherited a Vokera Linea 28 gas combi boiler at a property I'm refurbishing. I've only fired the boiler up about a half dozen times in four months but it's always worked fine - until last week. With power on at the wall, the green LED remains unlit, as does the red LCD...

Hi all, I posted this in the plumbing section but no response as yet so I've reposted here (looking to buy my materials today...) I'm replacing a small shower tray with a larger offset quadrant stone resin tray. The original tray was on a plinth built directly onto the joists because there...

Hi all, I'm replacing a small shower tray with a larger offset quadrant stone resin tray. The original tray was on a plinth built directly onto the joists because there are no floorboards under the tray, they look to have been rotted out and removed when this tray was fitted. The new tray...

Hi, I'm hoping someone can shed some light on my confusion. Our shower tray has failed by cracking near the waste. On ripping part of it out, I suspect it is because it has no support in that area (see pics). I've read a few tray manufacturer's install guides online and I always get stuck...

Hi, My first post on DIYnot! Hope you can help. I have a 12V landing light problem on the second floor of my 30's semi with loft conversion. A couple of nights ago there was a "bang" and the 2nd floor light circuit tripped out. Inspection showed one of the three landing bulbs had blown...